Weekend Thoughts On College Closures...

Scanning higher instruction tidings as well as social media the concluding calendar week or ii feels a fighting similar it did dorsum inwards March 2015 when Sweet Briar College announced it would close....of course, Sweet Briar is opened upwardly as well as happily serving students.  And inwards spite of many calls at the fourth dimension that nosotros were at a tipping point, it doesn't actually experience similar nosotros are falling off a cliff.

Now inwards the showtime few weeks of 2019 nosotros stimulate got seen a dyad of modest institutions denote they volition close, simply about other that faces possible loss of accreditation, as well as others are indicating that they are looking to merge or observe a partner.  As a result, nosotros are i time once to a greater extent than seeing a publish of people posting or commenting on what it all means...and from the audio of it, it isn't probable that it volition hold out good.

Yet, inwards the flurry of recent articles, ii people caught my attending this calendar week amongst ideas that contrast amongst to a greater extent than mutual narratives.

For those interested I stimulate got been updating a file on Google Sheets for College Closures since 2009. 

It is far likewise slow to postulate heed that a college is closing as well as and hence outpouring to conclusions virtually a tendency equally Burke notes inwards his post.  Historical perspective is ever valuable as well as earlier nosotros all conclude that the heaven is falling, it is of import to recall that a few colleges unopen every year.  

While it is patently early on inwards the twelvemonth as well as nosotros may inwards fact run into a surge of closures inwards 2019, our peak publish of closures over the concluding decade was inwards 2016 as well as the numbers declined inwards each of the past times ii years.

For a longer perspective, Chris Gehrz, professor of history at Bethel University inwards St. Paul, Minnesota authored a dyad of posts several years ago that explore information on institutional closures as well as flora that closures peaked during the 1970s.

You tin access the file past times clicking on College Closures since 2009 in the index at the correct of any  page. The file opens amongst an initial "Summary" tab. You tin as well as hence observe to a greater extent than details on each establishment inwards the "since 2009 non for profit" as well as "since 2009 for profit" tabs. This extra information includes: IPEDS id, Carnegie Basic classification, accrediting agency, as well as sector for the respective institutions.